Hacker News with Generative AI: Education

Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking (quantamagazine.org)
David Bessis claims that everyone is capable of, and can benefit greatly from, mathematical thinking.
Mathematics, Education, Thinking
65 points by sonabinu 5 hours ago | 19 comments
Startup Founder Who Sold A.I. Chatbot to Schools Is Charged with Fraud (nytimes.com)
The founder of an artificial intelligence start-up focused on education was arrested and charged with defrauding her investors, lying about the company’s profits and falsely claiming that some of the largest school districts in the country, including New York City’s, were her customers.
Artificial Intelligence, Education, Fraud, Startups, Law
10 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 7 hours ago | 2 comments
Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds (torrentfreak.com)
A recent study published in the Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice sheds light on people's motivations to use Z-Library. Expensive books and limited access to academic material play a key role among those surveyed. That includes a group of Chinese postgraduate students who believe that shadow libraries help to overcome (academic) poverty.
Academic Poverty, Education, Piracy, Research, Libraries
236 points by hn_acker 7 hours ago | 50 comments
Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT (news.mit.edu)
Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall, thanks to newly expanded financial aid. Eighty percent of American households meet this income threshold.
Education, Financial Aid, MIT, College Tuition
468 points by gnabgib 13 hours ago | 334 comments
Show HN: I'm 17 and made a tool to help students study smarter (lira.study)
LIRA lets you quickly save notes, summarize, and answer questions on any webpage, undetected.
Education, Tools, Students, Web Development
13 points by delamri 14 hours ago | 20 comments
Kids Can't Read Books (forbes.com)
I recognize I usually start with some kind of funny story or joke, but this is definitely not one. It's a simple question: Has any policy ever looked more politically dunderheaded in immediate hindsight than the Democratic Party's obsession with student loan forgiveness?
Politics, Education, Student Loans
18 points by georgecmu 19 hours ago | 47 comments
Show HN: DDoS Photon Cannon – A Toy DDoS (codeberg.org)
DDoS Photon Cannon is a DDoS C&C server and bot program built for EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. DDoS Photon Cannon is BARE BONES. It currently just sends HTTP GET requests to the target.
Security, Networking, Education, Tools
7 points by horeszko 1 day ago | 1 comments
The Business School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger (theatlantic.com)
The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.
Business, Scandal, Education, Corruption
16 points by aarghh 1 day ago | 1 comments
Feynman on Scientific Method [video] (youtube.com)
Science, Physics, Education, Video
5 points by nickpsecurity 2 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: MathGPT – Create math animations for any question (math-gpt.org)
Get instant homework help from your personal AI math solver
Mathematics, AI, Education, Tools
73 points by yannigk 2 days ago | 25 comments
Mathematical Thinking Isn't What You Think It Is (quantamagazine.org)
The mathematician David Bessis claims that everyone is capable of, and can benefit greatly from, mathematical thinking.
Mathematics, Education, Thinking, Psychology
6 points by isaacfrond 3 days ago | 1 comments
Everything Is Just Functions: 1 week with David Beazley and SICP (notion.site)
Programming, Functional Programming, Education, Computer Science
389 points by kurinikku 4 days ago | 228 comments
Ask HN: Great maker projects for 8th grade kids and above? (ycombinator.com)
As a father of a 13-year-old kid, I tried to do my best to initiate him to different aspects of life. It could be watching a documentary about black holes, building coffee table or just enjoying a simple walk in nature.
Education, Maker Projects, Technology, Children
12 points by ostaquet 4 days ago | 9 comments
SICP: The only computer science book worth reading twice? (2010) (simondobson.org)
I was talking to one of my students earlier, and lent him a book to read over summer. It was only after he’d left that I realised that — for me at any rate — the book I’d given him is probably the most seminal work in the whole of computer science, and certainly the book that’s most influenced my career and research interests.
Computer Science, Education, Books
460 points by pieterr 5 days ago | 177 comments
280K Indian international students in US majority doing CS (twitter.com)
Education, International Students, Computer Science, India, United States
7 points by kappi 5 days ago | 11 comments
Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence in primary schools (phys.org)
The largest trial of its kind in the U.K. has shown how a low-cost, structured, anti-bullying program can improve social dynamics in primary schools and reduce victimization.
Education, Bullying, Social Dynamics, Psychology
175 points by PaulHoule 5 days ago | 199 comments
Fashion History Timeline (fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu)
Select Page
Fashion, History, Education
14 points by danielam 6 days ago | 1 comments
It's hard to stop Math Acceleration once you start (kidswholovemath.substack.com)
It's hard to stop Math Acceleration once you start
Education, Math, Parenting, Learning
91 points by sebg 6 days ago | 96 comments
Chrestomathy (wikipedia.org)
A chrestomathy (/krɛˈstɒməθi/ kreh-STOM-ə-thee; from the Ancient Greek χρηστομάθεια khrēstomátheia 'desire of learning', from χρηστός khrēstós 'useful' + μανθάνω manthánō 'learn') is a collection of selected literary passages (usually from a single author); a selection of literary passages from a foreign language assembled for studying the language; or a text in various languages, used especially as an aid in learning a subject.
Language Learning, Literature, Linguistics, Education
18 points by thunderbong 6 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: 16 year olds building an AI-powered Integrated Writing Environment (factful.io)
Education, AI, Writing, Tools
12 points by Jainish08 6 days ago | 4 comments
Australia's top university to halt international student admissions next year (msn.com)
Education, International Students, Australia, Universities
6 points by teleforce 8 days ago | 3 comments
Graduate Degrees Are Overrated (lemire.me)
Though I have many brilliant graduate students, I love working with undergraduate students. And I am not at all sure that you should favor people with graduate degrees, given a choice. Many graduate students tend to favor abstraction over practical skills. They often have an idealized view of the world. Moreover, these students are often consumed by research projects, theses, or dissertations, and the publication of scientific articles, which limits their time for concrete actions.
Education, Higher Education, Skills, Academia
3 points by ibobev 8 days ago | 1 comments
A Mathematician in a School of Art (mathvalues.org)
Mathematics, Art, Education
127 points by nkoren 8 days ago | 27 comments
The False Promise of Device-Based Education (afterbabel.com)
In The Anxious Generation, we argued that smartphones and social media are significant contributors to the multi-national youth mental health crisis that began in the early 2010s.
Education, Technology, Mental Health
18 points by htunnicliff 8 days ago | 1 comments
Graduate Degrees Are Overrated (lemire.me)
Though I have many brilliant graduate students, I love working with undergraduate students. And I am not at all sure that you should favor people with graduate degrees, given a choice. Many graduate students tend to favor abstraction over practical skills. They often have an idealized view of the world. Moreover, these students are often consumed by research projects, theses, or dissertations, and the publication of scientific articles, which limits their time for concrete actions.
Education, Higher Education, Career Advice
12 points by usdogu 9 days ago | 8 comments
SFO Ballot Measure Reflects 10-Year Battle to Reinstate 8th-Grade Algebra (justequations.org)
The San Francisco Unified School District, which pulled algebra from its middle schools 10 years ago in the name of equity, will bring the course back next fall, ending a controversial experiment that some say squandered the opportunity for advanced learners to excel in mathematics—and did little to close the achievement gap.
Education, Math, San Francisco, Equity
8 points by throwoutway 9 days ago | 1 comments
The EdTech Revolution Has Failed (afterbabel.com)
In May of 2023, schools minister Lotta Edholm announced that Swedish classrooms would aim to significantly reduce student-facing digital technology and embrace more traditional practices like reading hardcopy books and taking handwritten notes.
Education, Technology, Sweden
345 points by obscurette 9 days ago | 507 comments
US Literacy Statistics 2022-2023 (thenationalliteracyinstitute.com)
Illiteracy has become such a serious problem in our country that 130 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their children
Education, Literacy, Statistics, United States
12 points by pantalaimon 9 days ago | 7 comments
AWS BuilderCards (amazon.com)
AWS BuilderCards, 2nd Edition, is a fun and educational deckbuilding card game, designed to teach how different AWS services work together to build well-architected workloads.
AWS, Games, Education, Cloud Computing
22 points by Seb-C 9 days ago | 11 comments
New textbook teaches students about matrix methods and their real world apps (engin.umich.edu)
A new textbook, Linear Algebra for Data Science, Machine Learning, and Signal Processing, is being unveiled for use in classes that explore the many applications of matrix methods to real world data.
Linear Algebra, Data Science, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Education
77 points by teleforce 9 days ago | 33 comments